and yet PETA is silent about tape made out of duck? interesting

YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation Trump administration takes control of White House press pool

The White House has taken control of the press pool, removing wire agencies @reuters.com and @apnews.com, along with @huffpost.com.

@kamccudden.bsky.social of the U.S. Press Tracker warns: “The loss of AP & Reuters will fundamentally change the news we’re getting.”

freedom.press/issues/how-t...

Perfect bouquet of blue in an endless field of yellow and white flowers.

Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight

A cropped screenshot of the Flashes app in the App Store

Congratulations to @flashes.blue for their official launch on the App Store 🎉🎉🎉

It’s an instagram alternative built on the AT protocol 🙌 all the visual scrolling with none of the Meta algorithm

Wild watching Kendrick Lamar become the most popular rapper in the world right now but as I think harder about it, it's not so odd. Pac, Jay, Eminem, Wayne etc were all this popular before. We just got used to mainstream rap being vapid in the last decade or so

Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.

Why would a little boy say, “Shut the fuck up” if he wanted someone to be quiet? Was there someone in his life who maybe repeatedly said that to him? Also, where would he get the idea that Trump *isn’t* the President? Did someone also say that repeatedly to him?

We’re done here. Right?

The way I jumped out my seat at that part. Such a great show!

The AP says it was blocked from the Oval Office over continuing to use “Gulf of Mexico” | CNN Business The Associated Press said the White House barred its reporter from Tuesday’s Oval Office executive order signing because of the AP style guidance on using the name Gulf of Mexico versus Gulf of Americ...

AP reporter blocked from the Oval Office over AP’s continued use of “Gulf of Mexico”

www.cnn.com/2025/02/11/m...

A leading pediatrician was already worried about the future of vaccines. Then RFK Jr. came along In a new book, pediatric infectious disease specialist Dr. Adam Ratner details the history of measles, a virus that’s often a bellwether for public health disasters.

"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'

A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."

Under oath, Kash Patel said he was unaware of plans to dismiss FBI agents before he was confirmed.

Today, whistleblowers revealed Patel was reportedly directing those dismissals. Covertly.

Yet another reason he must be rejected.

Musk makes sweeping claims about federal corruption, without providing evidence. The billionaire, whose federal cost-cutting team has been operating in secrecy, asserted that he had uncovered waste and fraud across the bureaucracy, without providing evidence.

This is just insane and you all know that, right? Unelected, unfettered, untouchable, unsupported by facts and completely without transparency: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

I didn't watch but it is my understanding that Drake lost the Super Bowl

RFK Jr. and his family stand to profit off lawsuits against vaccines. An HHS Secretary shouldn't have a financial interest in making our country sicker. I’m demanding RFK Jr. recuse himself from any work on vaccine policy while he has a financial interest in the outcome.

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%.

The actual number is less than 1%.

Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

Tariff-inflated prices pass the pain along to consumers, many of whom voted for Trump.
Good job, asshole.

Thanks to George Conway for posting Caroline Kennedy's letter so everyone is informed about RFK Jr. Please repost far and wide.

PROP - PR Over Policy.

Don't confuse them.

He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him.

Dems need to be strategic.

Google reclassifies U.S. as ‘sensitive country’ alongside China, Russia after Trump's 'Gulf of America' comments Following President Trump's declarations about changes to the map, Google employees were given the highest level of urgency to reclassify the U.S.

Google has labeled the US as a “sensitive country,” an epithet typically reserved for countries with strict governments & border disputes like China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, & Iraq. This shows how far we’ve fallen under a leadership thriving on division & chaos.
www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/g...

2025 has been my least favorite decade so far.

Art is political. I have a new video giving my reasons why it’s a punk and important thing you can be doing right now. youtu.be/J-QscEXh1gA?...

The Bishop Who Pleaded With Trump: ‘Was Anyone Going to Say Anything?’

“I had a feeling that there were people watching what was happening and wondering, Was anyone going to say anything?” Bishop Mariann Budde explained. “Was anyone going to say anything about the turn the country’s taking?”

So, she took a breath, and spoke.

Ancient Bird Fossil Offers Clues Into How Bird Brains Evolved The “one-of-a-kind” fossil of Navaornis hestiae helps fill a giant gap in scientists’ understanding of how bird brains evolved.

Scientists digitally reconstructed an ancient bird’s brain using one remarkably well-preserved fossil.